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Okay...~aurora-firestorm referred me to Greg Martin's tutorials.

This piece was done with both his Starfield and Planet tutorials. Both were very easy to understand, and if you repeat the process a couple of times in making something, you start to get it down fairly easily. Suffice to say, my methods of doing planets AND stars have gotten a big boost. I will probably work more towards hand-touching the planets and nebula in future pieces to add onto the effects the tutorials had me making down the road. It's obvious the tutorials could be carried out with anyone using a mouse, but I have this urge to use the tablet with just about any PS process...

A hint however: If you find yourself adding double layers of the texture-boosting emboss effect, you had too bland of a surface for the emboss effect to grab hold of. My moon in this picture is evidence of that. If you squint at it, you'll notice it really does look like a dull Ping Pong ball with some subtle texture. Too subtle I'd say, but it worked OK for a smaller moon.

This is just a starting point, but I do intend to grow from there. More spacescapes forthcoming. And yes, I expect the next few to be improvements over this one. I need a break from fractals.

About...maybe 2 and a half hours, tops on PS 7.0. Most of the time was chewed up by making the starfield and trying to do the tutorials to the letter.

PS. If anybody notices a funky rectangle going from one of the big stars down to the moon, that was a goof with the lens flare that a friend just pointed out to me on MSN. Don't think it'll be easily edited without some serious jiggery-pokery, so I'm just going to refine my flare-modifying methods for the next piece. Just so you know.

Description
Okay...~aurora-firestorm referred me to Greg Martin's tutorials.

This piece was done with both his Starfield and Planet tutorials. Both were very easy to understand, and if you repeat the process a couple of times in making something, you start to get it down fairly easily. Suffice to say, my methods of doing planets AND stars have gotten a big boost. I will probably work more towards hand-touching the planets and nebula in future pieces to add onto the effects the tutorials had me making down the road. It's obvious the tutorials could be carried out with anyone using a mouse, but I have this urge to use the tablet with just about any PS process...

A hint however: If you find yourself adding double layers of the texture-boosting emboss effect, you had too bland of a surface for the emboss effect to grab hold of. My moon in this picture is evidence of that. If you squint at it, you'll notice it really does look like a dull Ping Pong ball with some subtle texture. Too subtle I'd say, but it worked OK for a smaller moon.

This is just a starting point, but I do intend to grow from there. More spacescapes forthcoming. And yes, I expect the next few to be improvements over this one. I need a break from fractals.

About...maybe 2 and a half hours, tops on PS 7.0. Most of the time was chewed up by making the starfield and trying to do the tutorials to the letter.

PS. If anybody notices a funky rectangle going from one of the big stars down to the moon, that was a goof with the lens flare that a friend just pointed out to me on MSN. Don't think it'll be easily edited without some serious jiggery-pokery, so I'm just going to refine my flare-modifying methods for the next piece. Just so you know.